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The overwhelming majority of Linux users are on 4 distros + derivatives. Debian Fedora Arch Suse not “thousands”
Where would what end? Most actually open source projects just publish releases to source and provide as much or as little support as they feel like. Slap a github issues page up and tell every user that you are only interested in dealing with bugs in the most recent version in whatever official channel you prefer eg provide appimage of releases and insist that users reproduce and document bug.
Time wasted mostly wont even bother to create a github account and if they do close issues if they can’t follow directions.
JordanZ@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Indeed. If he changed the license to allow packaging the new version, at least all of those reports would be of the current version rather than the last GPL one.
Let the community in and use their time to contribute rather than locking it down as a one man project and then complaining about it.
IzzyJ@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Plus you can just make a flatpak or appimage and b3 done with it since those are distro agnostic. Wouldn’t be the first software where the flatpak is the only supported version and the AUR isn’t; see OBS
sukhmel@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Higher in this thread they said the author does provide a flatpak, so this didn’t seem to work ¯\_(ツ)_/¯